Andy Warhol 365 Takes: The Andy Warhol Museum Collection

Staff Of Andy Warhol Museum

ISBN 10: 0810943298 / ISBN 13: 9780810943292

Published by Abrams, 2004

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Synopsis:

Andy Warhol was one of the most compelling figures of the 20th-century art world whose body of work transformed the landscape of contemporary art. He was also a notorious collector who saved practically everything that came his way. In 1994, seven years after the artist's death, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh became the repository not only for a substantial body of his artwork and films, but also for the Time Capsules into which he obsessively deposited a lifetime's worth of ephemera and personal memorabilia. For this book'created in the same format as Abrams' best-selling Earth From Above: 365 Days'the museum has gathered highlights of its collection. Illustrated with almost 400 objects, from paintings to party invitations, the volume also features lively commentaries by the museum's staff as well as quotes from Warhol's own irreverent writings. Timed to coincide with the celebration of the museum's 10-year anniversary, this book will serve as both an introduction to and a handbook for the most extensive collection anywhere of this iconic artist's work.

Review: If you're a fan, your bookshelf is crying out for Andy Warhol: 365 Takes. If you're not, this artfully designed volume may very well turn you into one. Read it straight through or dip in anywhere. Either way, you get an illustrated tour of Warhol's friends, lovers, personal history and obsessions (shoes, religion, jewels, mortality), as well as his art. Organised in a vaguely thematic way that blithely ignores chronology, this compact volume serves up a four-decade feast of creativity in bitesize nuggets: a very Warholian approach. Facing pages juxtapose a Warhol image with a well-chosen morsel of text. Drawn from diverse sources, including The Andy Warhol Diaries, the texts illuminate the images with useful tidbits of insider information.

Reproductions of Warhol's work reveal his extraordinary range and inventiveness, from the delicate, lyrical drawing for a jazz record cover from the 1950s to rueful self-portrait photos in drag from the early 1980s. Of course, much of the famous work is here as well—the Death and Disaster Series, the Brillo boxes, the Three Marilyns, the celebrity portraits of the 1970s, the collaborations with the Velvet Underground. One of the most intriguing aspects of the book is the way it uses Warhol's vast personal collection of ephemera to show how a newspaper headline, shop window or movie star magazine could inform the look of his art. This great compendium of Warholiana is marred only by the occasionally smug, fanzine tone of remarks by the Andy Warhol Museum staff. There's no need to overstate the case for Warhol; his outsized reputation is secure. —-Cathy Curtis, Amazon.com

Bibliographic Details

Title: Andy Warhol 365 Takes: The Andy Warhol ...
Publisher: Abrams
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good